The Amazing Spider-Man #4 [Regular Edition]
(September 1963)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bimonthly
On-sale Date
1963-06-11
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Non-Pareil Publishing Corp.
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Nothing Can Stop... The Sandman! (Table of Contents)

Spider-Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Spider-Man!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Sandman [Flint Marko]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
Reprints

Nothing Can Stop...The Sandman! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee [early- to mid-career])
Pencils
Steve Ditko (signed as Steve Ditko)
Inks
Steve Ditko (signed as Steve Ditko)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek (sourced) (pages 6-21, bottom caption page 1); Sam Rosen (pages 1-5)

Job Number
X-362
Genre
superhero
Characters
Liz Allan (only first name revealed); Betty Brant (introduction, only last name revealed); J. Jonah Jameson; Aunt May Parker; Sandman [Flint Marko] (origin) (introduction); Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Flash Thompson; Davis (principal)
Synopsis
The Sandman tries to hide from police in the high school where Peter Parker goes to school.
Reprints
Keywords
atomic devices testing center; industrial vacuum; Island Prison; Midtown High; nuclear test

Indexer Notes

Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Timely/Atlas discussion group. Rosen letters on pages 1-5 per Nick Caputo.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

The Avengers; Fantastic Four; Human Torch; Spider-Man / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Sgt. Fury / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Spider's Web / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
Steve Ditko; Sol Brodsky ? (illustrations)
Inks
Steve Ditko; Sol Brodsky ? (illustrations)
Colors
Stan Goldberg ?
Letters
typeset; ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Amazing Spider-Man #2 was again very good.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Dave Bibby, Gary Anderson, Paul Moslander, Larry Brown, Bill Schmuck, Arthur Davis Jr., and Rick Wood.
Includes Special Announcements Section and a house ad for X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (September 1963).

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Nothing Can Stop... The Sandman!
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. Nothing Can Stop...The Sandman!
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    The Avengers; Fantastic Four; Human Torch; Spider-Man
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Sgt. Fury
  5. 4. ["Amazing Spider-Man #2 was again very good."]
    Spider's Web
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • John Brichetto
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Pierre Freyssonnet
  • Del Gruber
  • Matthew Head
  • Adam Knights
  • R. S. Martin
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Douglas Sederberg
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore